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Sorry, somehow I just don’t find that there’s going to be any divine inspiration to call anything that promotes personal literacy as much as the Harry Potter series has done. My daughter grew up reading each and every novel, and stood in line each midnight (or waited at home eagerly for me to return from doing it when she was younger), and sat and read the books cover to cover.

That LifeSiteNews gets reaction to their articles is understandable. After all, I think you’d be hard pressed to find a more read series on the planet outside of religious texts. And personally, I find the series to be an inspiration story of good fighting against evil, of the dangers of betrayal, of the power of love.

But some can see nothing beyond the fact that there are witches mentioned, and people point wands.

The reason why these articles don’t reach much traction in the press is that they read like crackpot extremist articles that is for the most exclusive of audiences. The biggest humor, of course, is that they’re most widely distributed on the same medium that distributes more pornography than any other.

So, yes, the Pope can tsk all he wants at the series. What of it? I believe that Pope Benedict is a religious authority to top all authorities, but I don’t ask his opinion as to which website, novel or newspaper to read. If I picked out choice passages on this website, I’m sure I could convince anyone to believe it is something to imperil someone’s soul.